David Coulthard says anti-Grand Prix Melburnians are selfish

FORMULA One great David Coulthard says Melburnians who don't support the Albert Park Grand Prix are "small-minded" and "selfish".

Coulthard, who won the Australian Grand Prix twice during his 16-year Formula One career, has anti-GP campaigners in his sights and said those calling for the death of the annual race needed to learn to be tolerant.

"If people want to be small-minded and not look beyond their personal needs, then that's disappointing."

"It's a great race track within the Albert Park facility, and for the one week of inconvenience where people don't get the access, then I think they shouldn't be so selfish, quite frankly."

"There's lots of things that I don't particularly appreciate in life, but I don't go campaigning against it as I understand there's a lot of people that do like it."

"The people who put out the negativity and the people that go there and do their little protest, I wonder how they'd feel if I came and stood outside whatever sporting event they follow and put forward my rights to say 'I don't like them doing that, it annoys me, it upsets my feng shui' or whatever it is."

The Grand Prix has come under fire from local opposition groups every year since it moved to Melbourne in 1996.